ext4: check superblock mapped prior to committing

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808399
commit a17712c8e4be4fa5404d20e9cd3b2b21eae7bc56 upstream.

This patch attempts to close a hole leading to a BUG seen with hot
removals during writes [1].

A block device (NVME namespace in this test case) is formatted to EXT4
without partitions. It's mounted and write I/O is run to a file, then
the device is hot removed from the slot. The superblock attempts to be
written to the drive which is no longer present.

The typical chain of events leading to the BUG:
ext4_commit_super()
  __sync_dirty_buffer()
    submit_bh()
      submit_bh_wbc()
        BUG_ON(!buffer_mapped(bh));

This fix checks for the superblock's buffer head being mapped prior to
syncing.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg56527.html

Signed-off-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 067c051eef18b37a51b9e9ecc25ab11e3917d547..1ed7eabe0f8a147c068030ae7203939cca5fbd4f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4794,6 +4794,14 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
 
        if (!sbh || block_device_ejected(sb))
                return error;
+
+       /*
+        * The superblock bh should be mapped, but it might not be if the
+        * device was hot-removed. Not much we can do but fail the I/O.
+        */
+       if (!buffer_mapped(sbh))
+               return error;
+
        /*
         * If the file system is mounted read-only, don't update the
         * superblock write time.  This avoids updating the superblock